notorious

How To Use notorious In A Sentence

• Luke was a brilliant student despite the fact that he was a notorious slacker.
• Two executives of a notorious stockbroking firm that fleeced more than 8,000 savers were banned from the City yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
• The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process. 2009 February 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
• A shuffling street drinker with a string of convictions over eight lost years, she is now notorious as the woman who exposes herself in public.
• And there is an even thornier problem: america's logging regulations are notoriously lax. Times, Sunday Times
• So why has Polly come up with what is, even by her notoriously moronic standards, an outstandingly hopeless argument?
• But he also starred in countless films which are so bad they have become notorious.
• A campaign to curb speeders on one of the area's most notorious roads has been given a boost.
• (BTWI prefer “fair trial” which is more firmly rooted/defined in articulable legal principles/standards because “doing justice” is a phrase that notoriously begs the question). Discourse.net: Should Prosecutors Hire Jury Consultants?
• He is a coach more notorious for doping his athletes than for their on-track successes.